by Sally Schlichting | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
Photo of Carroll Inlet, located near the Shelter Island area of South Revillagigedo Island, by Adam Weiland. A huge attack on old growth and wild forests The Tongass National Forest has proposed a massive logging project encompassing more than 40,000 acres on the...
by Sarah Davidson | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Inside Passage
Photo by Jeremy Lavender of Lavender Peaks Photography These are challenging times. As we’re all doing our best to keep up with what’s unfolding in our country and to remain healthy during this time that is so demanding of our energy, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or...
by Conor.Lendrum | Nov 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Starting today, #GivingTuesday, SEACC’s Board of Directors, bound together by a shared vision of a sustainable future, has committed to match every dollar donated to our 50th anniversary. Double your dollars until we reach our ultimate goal of $50,000!...
by Sarah Davidson | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Inside Passage
Now is your chance to add your voice to Alaska’s water quality management for the next three years! Here is some information and talking points about the 2021-2023 Triennial Review of Alaska Water Quality Standards. A public hearing will be held from 4-6 p.m....
by Emily | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured, Press Releases, Tongass
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOct. 28, 2020 MEDIA CONTACT:Meredith TrainorEmail: Meredith@seacc.orgPhone: 907-957-8347 Southeast Alaskans Ignored: Trump’s USDA Secretary Axes Roadless Rule Protections for the TongassSecretary Perdue succumbs to political pressure; officially...
by Maggie Rabb | Oct 27, 2020 | Featured
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is hiring! Who We Are SEACC is a small grassroots nonprofit based out of Juneau, Alaska, in the Tongass National Forest. For 50 years SEACC has been a regional conservation watchdog defending the remaining intact old-growth stands...
by Dan Cannon | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
SEACC is celebrating our 50th anniversary alongside that of one of our country’s most important environmental laws: The National Environmental Policy Act. While we look forward forward to the next 50 years of maintaining conserving the Tongass, we reflect on how...
by Emily | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Bart Koehler 1984-1991 & 1995-1999 Executive Director What was your vision for SEACC when you worked there? Do you think you reached it? Why or why not? To conservationists, it seemed the Forest Service and the Alaska Congressional Delegation saw Southeast Alaska...
by Emily | Oct 21, 2020 | Press Releases
JUNEAU (Tlingit / Áak’w Ḵwáan lands) – A coalition of rainforest defenders who successfully halted a massive timber sale on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest received word this week that their legal victory would go unchallenged. The U.S....
by Meredith Trainor | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Photo by Michele Cornelius Dear Friends, 2020 is the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council’s 50th year and it looks very little like what we’d anticipated in 2018 and 2019. We reflected on our history and we planned celebrations for this milestone, but the global...
